Start with a title

Add your name

then pull together your Notes on research and planning

Pull together notes on your reading and your thinking and present it in a form organized so it can elicit useful comments from a reader (in this case, PT). To show your planning, you should include: a) an updated overview paragraph followed by b) notes on each point in the AR cycles/epicycles handout, from Systematic research on effects of (past) action to your plan for evaluation of the action you might implement. If you haven't yet addressed some point on the cycle/epicycles, then either explain why you think it is not relevant or make a note about the help/coaching you need to do it.

Record the full citations for your sources, including those from the WWW. I recommend using a bibliographic database—Endnote can be downloaded for a 30 day trial from http://www.endnote.com.

Work-in-progress presentations

**In 2007 I was attending the presentations from long distance, so I needed to ask each of you to prepare a word file or powerpoint visual aid to your presentation and upload it the day before the class. The presentation might cover the same territory as the notes (see above), but reading those notes to us is not effective oral and visual communication. The presentation should convey the important features of work you have already done and, to elicit useful feedback during 3 minutes of Q&A, indicate also where additional investigation or advice are needed and where you think that might lead you.
Preparing presentations, hearing yourself deliver them, and getting feedback usually leads to self-clarification of the overall direction of your project and of your priorities for further work. In this spirit, 10 minute presentations of your work-in-progress are scheduled early in your projects and a bit later on – they are necessarily on work in progress, not a polished product.
Note: The 10 minutes includes set up time, Q&A, and packing up so the next person can start.